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CenterPoint Energy

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CenterPoint Energy, a Houston-based utility serving roughly 7 million electric and gas customers across four US states, confirmed on 2026-09-14 in an SEC filing that an unauthorized third party obtained personal information on a portion of its customers through an external-facing system. An attacker claims to have exfiltrated 7.49 million records by iterating through a public API lacking rate limiting and web application firewall protection, including names, phone numbers, service and billing addresses, account numbers, and partial Social Security numbers. The company has not confirmed this volume or the exact data types, and the investigation is ongoing.

Partial Social Security numbers combined with names, addresses and account numbers facilitate identity theft and targeted phishing impersonating the utility provider.

Disclosed on
September 14, 2026
Accounts affected
7.5M
Sector
Energy
Country
United States
Cause
Misconfigured database

Exposed data

  • Full name
  • Phone number
  • Postal address
  • Customer ID
  • Social security number

You are only affected if you had an account or an order with this organisation.

What you can do

  • Expect phishing attempts quoting your name and this company. A message that knows your details is not legitimate for that reason.
  • These documents enable identity theft, and cannot be reissued at will. Keep the notification letter: it proves where the leak came from if an account is opened in your name.
  • You can ask the organisation exactly what was exposed about you (right of access), and complain to the DPA if no answer comes within a month.

Sources

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